The
event is a bike ride in which cyclists visit grocery stores to pick up specific
food items. Riders determine which stores they will visit and in which order.
The bike ride will be about 15 miles.

It's
free to participate, but riders should bring some cash, about $15, to buy items
at the various stores and a messenger bag, backpack, trailer or some other
container to haul their groceries.

Participants
will coordinate their own mini food drives to collect nonperishable goods from
family, friends and co-workers. The food should be brought to Cranksgiving on
Nov. 23. Businesses can organize food drives, also.

Cash
donations are welcome. Visit Bikecleveland.org/donate and note Cranksgiving in
the comment section when making a donation. A group of Bike Cleveland board and
committee members and others will purchase groceries during Cranksgiving on
behalf of those contributing money.

Bike
Lakewood, Century Cycles, Kamm's Corners Development Corp., Village Bicycle
Cooperative in Bay Village and West Park Station are partnering for the event.

Breakfast with Santa: Yes, that's right.
It's time to make reservations for the annual Fairview Park Junior Women's Club Breakfast with Santa on Dec. 7. There will be
three seatings: 10:45 a.m., 12:15 and 1:45 p.m. at Bain Park Cabin of West 210th
Street in Fairview Park.

Pizza
and snacks will be served. Children can complete several crafts and Santa will
pose for photos with each child.

Cost
is $7 per person, free for those younger than 1. Seatings are filled on a
first-come, first-served basis. Reservations deadline is Dec. 1. Call Diane
Faile for more information or reservations, 216-548-2521, or visit
fairviewpark.jwc.org.

Club
will meet at Donato's, 26170 Lorain Road on Nov. 14. The meeting location is
being changed from the Senior Center due to ongoing repair work.

Women
age 21 and older from North Olmsted and surrounding communities are invited to
join the nonprofit community service organization. Call Mindy, the membership
chairperson, at 440-225-7684 for details.

Remembering Beverly
Potts:
James Jessen Badal, author of "Twilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of
Beverly Potts," will make a special presentation to the West Park Historical
Society at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 at Cretan Party Center on West 168th
Street, opposite Walgreens parking lot.

The
event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Those
attending can park in the Kamm's municipal lot off Albers Avenue.

Beverly,
age 10, left her home on Linnett Avenue in Cleveland the evening of Aug. 24,
1951, and walked one block west to Halloran Park to see the Showagon, a group
of entertainers who were giving a free performance. She never returned home.

More
than six decades later, her disappearance is still an enigma. Generations of
Cleveland youngsters were warned to be cautious after her disappearance.

Badal
analyzes the events of that summer night and the frustrating dead-ends and
hoaxes that continue to surround the case. He also re-examines the
investigative techniques of the time and the public fascination with the case.

The
Cleveland Metroparks has gift certificates that can be used towards the
purchase of merchandise and services ranging from golf greens fees and
Chalet tobogganing passes to Cleveland
Metroparks Zoo admission and facility rentals.

The
certificates can be purchased online at clevelandmetroparks.com, at the Metroparks
Nature Shop at the Rocky River Nature Center in North Olmsted, or Golf Pro Shops
at Big Met, Little Met and Mastick Woods golf courses in Fairview Park and West
Park.

You
also can save some money by shopping Nov. 16-17 at the Metroparks' Nature Shops
22nd anniversary sale. Shoppers will save 22 percent off their
entire purchases that weekend.

Update: Last week I
mentioned the Rev. Russell Lowe is the new pastor of Our Lady of Angels parish
in West Park. I learned that he and his pet Irish wolfhound, Napoleon, are
doing double duty this month, traveling between OLA and his last assignment as
pastor of St. Leo the Great parish in Cleveland.

OLA
is ending the celebration of its 90th anniversary year with a dinner
at Brennan's party center, 13000 Triskett Ave., after the 5 p.m. Mass on Nov.
16.

Tickets
can be purchased after Mass or at the rectory until Nov. 14. Cost is $25 per
person.

Now playing: Dover Players Community Theater is presenting
Edgar Allen Poe's "Stories from the House of Usher," adapted by Todd
Evangelista, Nov. 15-17 and 22-24 at North Olmsted's Old Town Hall, 5186 Dover
Center Road.

Admission
is free on a first-come, first-served basis, or call 440-779-1284 for
reservations at $5 per seat. Visit doverplayers.com for more information.

For
tickets, call Joe Dailey, 216-701-3143, or send an email message to jdailey@ppg.com.

Home for the winter: Did you know that
Lake Erie has the largest population of red-breasted merganser in the world?

According
to officials from the Cleveland Metroparks, these diving ducks stay on the
lakeshore all winter, then head north to Canada in the spring for summer
breeding.

The
metroparks is offering a hike 10-11:30 a.m. Nov. 16 at Edgewater Park Lakefront
Reservation, 6700 Memorial Shoreway, Cleveland. Several hundred to many
thousands of these ducks can be seen during the hike.

Information please: Readers are invited
to share information about themselves, their families and friends,
organizations, church events, etc. in Fairview Park, North Olmsted and West
Park for the A Place in the Sun column, which I am continuing to write on a
freelance basis. Submit information at least 10 days before the requested
publication date to carolkovach@hotmail.com.

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